the sprites are fucking gorgeous. why the hell should they homogenize just because your opinion
The sprites are not 'fucking gorgeous', they're low-res and heavily aliased. They're decent, but Xrd's 3D models look essentially identical to sprites - only more detailed and high-res. Xrd isn't homogenization, it's improvement. Except for maybe the backgrounds - I wouldn't mind if a '3D' cel-shaded BB left the camera-spinning out and kept the lovely 2D backgrounds.
Which is subjective. To me GG only looks barley passable.
Everybody's got their own opinion, but the fact is that the vast majority of people think Xrd looks way better. The whole reason the first Xrd trailers blew people's minds was because they were finally seeing what they had always wanted - a fighting game that combined the benefits of 3D with the gorgeous 'look' of hand-drawn 2D. I just saw another site announcing BBCF, and what to you know, it only took two comments for someone to be disappointed that it didn't look like Xrd.
Proper 2D still shits all over 3D. Especially since there are only a handfull of devs capable of high quality sprite works I don't want another series to become 3D.
It really doesn't, and calling GGXrd a '3D' game is really stretching things. For the most part it looks and plays identically to a 2D sprite game unless you're watching it on a massive TV (except for, yes, the backgrounds, which an Xrd-style BB game could change). Then you might be able to see the telltale signs of 3D modelling, and even then the characters look much cleaner than the sprites.
Maybe they don't have the time and the money to do it, think about it for a moment, or do you think ASW games sell millions and the company is loaded?.
You might be right, but that doesn't justify the extreme level of content-recycling we see here. Given how much cash they're saving by reusing all those characters and not even doing any re-drawing, the game should be cheaper than what it is - or possibly offer discounts for owners of the previous games. Not just for those who want to finish the story, but for those who don't care about the story and want to keep up with the gameplay without having to pay $50 for a few new characters and balance changes (and then another $50 when Central Fiction Extend comes out).